4.6 Article

Motion compensation for cone-beam CT using Fourier consistency conditions

Journal

PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 62, Issue 17, Pages 7181-7215

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa8129

Keywords

Fourier consistency conditions; cone-beam CT; motion estimation; motion correction

Funding

  1. NIH Shared Instrument Grant [S10 RR026714]
  2. NIH Weightbearing imaging Grant [R01 AR065248]
  3. Siemens AT
  4. Research Training Group 1773 Heterogeneous Image Systems
  5. Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

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In cone-beam CT, involuntary patient motion and inaccurate or irreproducible scanner motion substantially degrades image quality. To avoid artifacts this motion needs to be estimated and compensated during image reconstruction. In previous work we showed that Fourier consistency conditions (FCC) can be used in fan-beam CT to estimate motion in the sinogram domain. This work extends the FCC to 3D cone-beam CT. We derive an efficient cost function to compensate for 3D motion using 2D detector translations. The extended FCC method have been tested with five translational motion patterns, using a challenging numerical phantom. We evaluated the root-mean-square-error and the structural-similarity-index between motion corrected and motion-free reconstructions. Additionally, we computed the mean-absolute-difference (MAD) between the estimated and the ground-truth motion. The practical applicability of the method is demonstrated by application to respiratory motion estimation in rotational angiography, but also to motion correction for weight-bearing imaging of knees. Where the latter makes use of a specifically modified FCC version which is robust to axial truncation. The results show a great reduction of motion artifacts. Accurate estimation results were achieved with a maximum MAD value of 708 mu m and 1184 mu m for motion along the vertical and horizontal detector direction, respectively. The image quality of reconstructions obtained with the proposed method is close to that of motion corrected reconstructions based on the ground-truth motion. Simulations using noise-free and noisy data demonstrate that FCC are robust to noise. Even high-frequency motion was accurately estimated leading to a considerable reduction of streaking artifacts. The method is purely image-based and therefore independent of any auxiliary data.

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